Tag: data

Photo: Meta.mk A three-day training on data journalism and visualization was held in Public Room in Skopje, the capital of North Macedonia, from 14 to 16 December. The training in English was attended by 14 young people, primarily students and journalists from all over North Macedonia. The training was conducted by Derek Willis, lecturer at the Philip Merrill College of Journalism...

In November last year, 208 building permits were issued in North Macedonia, which is 14.4% drop compared to the same month n 2019, announced the State Statistical Office (SSO) of North Macedonia. The assumed value of the facilities is 1.921.700 MKD (31.247.000 EUR) which is 22.2 % less compared to the same month in the prevoius year. Out of the total...

The corona virus took two young lives, persons aged 23 and 29 have succumbed to the virus. The Health Ministry informs that in the past 24 hours, 9 people have died of COVID-19: a patient from Kriva Palanka (aged 52), two patients from Gostivar (aged 60 and 62), one patient from Kumanovo (aged 60), one from Veles (aged 70),...

Towards the end of June, the Agency for protection of the right to free access to public information prepared a questionnaire so it can collect original and authentic data about the implementation of the Law on Free Access to Public Information (LFAPI) since the start of 2020 i.e. since the Agency began working up until 30th of June. "This questionnaire...

The population census will be conducted from 1 to 21 April in 2020. Approximately 5,000 census enumerators will be engaged in the field, and this time round, officials will use combined methods, not solely using only field data, but also data from registers. Operational costs are estimated at 8.5 million euros. This information was given by the director of the...

The Basic Public Prosecutor's Office Skopje requested "data and documentation" from the institutions regarding the criminal charges that were recently submitted against the president of the Supreme Court, Jovo Vangelovski, to the Council for Fact-Finding and initiating a procedure for determining responsibility for a judge, said the Public Prosecutor's Office for “Meta”. The council filed the criminal charges on September...

The Special Prosecutor's Office started with an analysis of the materials seized during yesterday's searches of the offices and the homes of Judge Vladimir Pancevski and two IT employees employed by the court, stated today Special Prosecutor, Katica Janeva. The Special Prosecutor said that the seized material were handed over to the Ministry of Interior's expert unit, but did not...

Foreign investors invested seven times less than what was announced and there are three times fewer jobs than promised, shows the database "Foreign investment under scrutiny" prepared by the journalistic team BIRN Macedonia. The survey looked at 138 investments which were announced or promoted by the government from 2007 to 2016. It shows that 43 foreign investments were not realized...

With the assistance from the outside expert from the Swedish company “Ericsson”, today, from the auxiliary servers from the Administration of Security and Counterintelligence (UBK), the Special Public Prosecution confiscated all the data required by the court order. This afternoon, the SPO announced that as soon as the confiscated data is further analyzed, the findings will be “shared with the...

Field checks which have been carried out on questionable voters by all departments of the State Election Commission (SEC) are in their final phase, announced the SEC this evening. They added that at present, the Commission is focused on inputting and processing the data from the questionnaires into a single electronic application. The State Election Commission, in a statement rejects...

The State Election Commission today will run tests on the system designed to cross-check data, and from tomorrow will begin the procedures for cleansing the Voter's Lists. Subhi Jakupi, a member of the SEC informed the public that from the provided data from 10 relevant institutions they will make an assessment which will last a few days, and then be followed...

"Meta" has learnt that by the end of this week, or at the latest, by Monday, the SEC will begin to cleanse the voter's list. Sources from the State Election Commission (SEC) said " preparations are coming to an end and in the coming days we will start checking". SEC members last week adopted the decision on cross-checking the...

The aim and task of the State Election Commission is to conduct elections under the Constitution and by laws of the state, and the results to be recognised and accepted by all candidates, contestants and citizens said the SEC Chairman Aleksandar Chicakovski at today's press conference . Chicakovski added that the SEC are doing everything  in the power to make...

The State Election Commission (SEC) at tonight's session adopted a decision to use the cross comparison of data, and to use the databases of 13 institutions, including the Health Insurance Fund, Pension (PIOM), Public Revenue Office (PRO), the National Bank, Land Registry, Ministry of Labour and Social Policy and others. The meeting of the SEC, which was scheduled for 17:45...